At about 8 p.m., officers from the southern district arrived at the hotel, at 2451 Riva Road, and were told that a man in his late twenties or early thirties had entered the hotel, displayed a handgun and demanded money from the clerk, police said. The clerk gave the money to the man, who then fled, police said.

Police said that county officers and an Annapolis City K-9 unit searched the area but were unable to find the suspect. The man was described as wearing a yellow baseball hat, a black "Star Wars" T-shirt, and tan or khaki-colored shorts, police said.

Anyone with information is urged to contact the Metro Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-866-7LOCKUP.

Prosecutors announced new indictments Monday of Baltimore jail staff, the same day a top corrections official testified in the federal corruption trial of eight inmates and corrections officers about the difficulty containing misconduct in the system.